To be amazed this family were allowed on the flight (Ryanair)

Our baby did a small milk barf right before a long haul flight, we thought nothing of it until our older one started throwing up a few hours into the flight. Cue the worst flight of our lives. We felt awful having two sick children, and exposing others to whatever this was (probably norovirus). I think my DH lost his clothes to the chemical waste bag after the older one threw up all over him while waiting to use the bathroom and there was a queue where it got on someone there too. Then we landed we were in a country where english is not the primary language with an infant who couldn't hold milk down for days. After the children got better, we got it and the expensive trip was a complete waste. If we had known, we wouldn't have done it in a million years. The family of the OP sound like they were very aware though, which is not ok.

Beijing. I reckon it's probably thermal imaging?

I'm currently on holiday in a hotel a couple of hours from home in the UK, think centre Parks type place, 2 days before we left my son woke us at night with a vomiting bug. Puked all night and I was horrified thinking our trip wasnt going to happen. Thank God he stopped puking almost exactly 48 hours before we left to drive to the hotel. I still felt worried one fi the rest of us would be incubating it but we all seemed well and I'd literally worn gloves and been on hand with dettol and wipes and not allowed anyone else near him. Thankfully none fo the rest of us are ill but there's no way we would even have come to a hotel. We'd already started planning to go. Day late and lose our first night.

I really can't believe they were allowed on the flight

If one were cynical, you might say it’s because if you’re unwell and passing it on to others in a cruise ship, they are stuck on there with the ill people and have to deal with the fallout, whereas on, a plane after a few hours or so and before anyone else becomes symptomatic, they get off and become someone else’s problem…..?

I remember that, during the pandemic, you would get your temperature taken before you boarded a plane. Shame they still don't do that.

I was on a coach tour with my 95 year old Mum a couple of years ago, just after the pandemic. On the return journey, a number of other passengers were coughing, but non-e wore masks and the courier wouldn't ask them to - we did. My mum caught Covid and was very ill for weeks after.

Some people just don't care.

If this was a blanket rule it would affect women most, as women in early pregnancy as so susceptible to vomiting. Pg women would be afraid to travel for fear of vomiting at the airport and losing their flights or holiday if they were stopped at the gates. The contagious question is very relevant IMO.

This should be the airlines responsibility. They have a duty of care to the passengers and they are knowingly letting all those passengers fly exposed to a bug. Either they should have a policy that someone actively vomiting isn't allowed board and given another flight 48 hours later, or they get a refund for genuine illness. Or they have a separate area for sick people, even a tiny corner away from the seats. But of course they don't, since when has Ryanair cared about their customers. I'd feel bad for the poor kid and the parents but it's understandable they didn't cancel their holiday too, it's not like they would get a refund.

But depending on the cause, it won't stop! Not untill the flight is over.

It's a disability. No difference to hearing and smelling someone who is incontinent of feaces due to a disability.

There may be multiple reasons for vomiting, but an actively vomiting passenger should not be allowed on a flight regardless of the cause. If a medical emergency happens mid-flight it causes problems for the entire flight. If you’re vomiting you should be grounded until you stop.

That is fucking disgusting and I can't believe people would fly with a vomiting child. Incredibly selfish and also just fully miserable for the child!

I would have rebooked the flights 100%

We caught a bug from a woman two rows in front of us flying out to Spain last year. My DD was still being sick the day we flew home, I called our travel insurance and they said to not let staff see her be sick before the flight as we wouldn't be allowed on. I took her to the pharmacy to get anti sickness medication. She's only 4 so it was not easy, but she wasn't sick on the flight and we made it home thank god. I would never travel out to a holiday with a vomiting child!!!

But in this case it was a bug, admitted by the mum

I agree it’s not nice for anyone x

If one of my children was repeatedly vomiting and had a fever due to a stomach bug I would not take them on an airplane unless it was unavoidable. I think the homebound flight at the end of a holiday is different because your accommodation booking has come to an end and you need to get home. The outgoing flight to get on holiday isn’t the same level of necessity. Aside from how inconsiderate it is to knowingly bring a vomiting bug onto an airplane, it is really unfair on the child. The OP said he was sick at the boarding gate, twice before take off and then repeatedly throughout the flight. I’m sure the poor child was miserable and likely wanted to be home in his own bed asleep.

Not while they’re actively puking, no! The chances were it was a sickness bug. There’s a particularly gross and contagious one doing the rounds at the moment. Both my partner and I had it on holiday and fortunately recovered before we came home. It would have been extremely unpleasant to have to fly in that condition - not just for us but for the rest of the plane, especially as we had diarrhoea as well. Actually, I don’t think I could have.

My eldest had travel sickness, and after the journey to the airport she’d be green, and would often be sick again en route. Always came prepared with a supply of sick bags etc. It couldn’t be helped, she was otherwise fine. It would have been pretty sad if we couldn’t have left our locality for the 5 years it took to go…Perhaps it was nothing more than that. Plenty of small children get travel sickness.

How odd that you mention no interaction with airline staff. You didn't complain?

Ex Cabin crew here. Worked for jet2 before I moved to Virgin Atlantic. We have diverted before due to this happening. Took off from Manchester to Corfu. Young child violently sick 3 times and we had to divert back to Manchester.
De-planed and then onwards on a new aircraft later that day. Parents were less than impressed. Tutting, sighing, aggressively shoving their belongings into their bags. Felt so sorry for the little one, they were white as a sheet & clearly unwell. I wondered how they got through check in and secuirty tbh with you.
They should've done the same.

If it's a contagious bug then they shouldn't be allowed to fly but it is always hard to tell and people are also not always truthful.

Agree planes should refuse to board visibly I'll passenegrs unless they can produce a medical cert confirming there is no non-contagious underlying cause. Insurance should cover the cancellation / rearranging.

Yea it's shit for family of ill child. But it's better it being shit for them, rather than ruining multiple peoples holidays - anyone who is sitting near them on the plane, anyone who shares a pool / buffet / toilet with them on holiday. This is what causes things like cruise ships to close down ans have to be decontaminated, because selfish people who know they're ill insist on carrying on.

I am sure I am not the first to say this, but it was Ryanair ...

I was on a flight earlier this year and a gout about 20 asked to
move to an empty aisle seat next to me. When he sat down he said he needed to be nearer to the toilet as he had a stomach bug. I was furious. I didn’t eat all flight and used anti bac hand gel all the time. I can’t believe some people’s sense of entitlement